With restaurants and other hospitality businesses facing some of the earliest and largest financial losses from COVID-19, one local company established an online resource to help raise more than $200 million for them.
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At Redner’s Markets, ‘It is all hands on deck.’
To stop the hoarding, Redner’s Markets, a Pennsylvania based supermarket chain, is allowing store managers to set limits on the number of items customers can buy of certain foods, like toilet paper or meat.
Read More »Temperature control device manufacturer aids companies researching COVID-19 cure
Julabo USA, a company in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, is among those businesses that’s staying open because it is helping to equip pharmaceutical companies that are working on vaccines, research, and drug therapies to directly combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More »KeyBank offering support to those impacted by coronavirus
Cleveland-based KeyBank, which has more than a dozen braches in the Greater Lehigh Valley, said it is offering support services for those impacted by the coronavirus, COVID-19.
Read More »Chamber promoting open restaurants and businesses with website, marketing
Now, there is one place where Lehigh Valley consumers can find restaurants still serving up meals and how they can get them, as well as information about small business goods and services still available.
Read More »Here are some tips for health care workers looking to de-stress while off duty
The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic can be especially taxing for health care workers, so the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania is offering tips to help health care workers unwind and recharge when they are off duty.
Read More »Pennsylvania unemployment claims jump to nearly 650K
The state Department of Labor has reported that nearly 649,967 unemployment claims have been filed since March 16.
Read More »Cedar Crest College donates face masks, gowns to local health networks
Cedar Crest College’s School of Nursing donated their lab supply of approximately 400 N95 respirator masks, 700 regular masks, gloves and isolation gowns to St. Luke’s University Health Network Allentown Campus and Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Read More »Senate passes $2 trillion aid package, House expected to vote Friday
The Senate passed a record $2 trillion stimulus package late Wednesday aimed at jumpstarting the U.S. economy, which has seen mass layoffs, business closures, imperiled industries and volatile financial markets since the beginning of March due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
Read More »Distiller says beer donations can help with COVID-19 fight
If you have some brew your willing to spare – particularly if you’re a local brewery – the folks at Christmas City Spirits in Bethlehem are hoping you’ll donated it to them to help with their effort to make hand sanitizer for area health care and emergency services providers.
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